VGP - State President confident of reaching US$6 billion trade target with Italy, Viet Nam to miss 2016 export target, Viet Nam setting new tourism record and the nation leading ASEAN in trading with Canada are economic highlights from November 21-27.

VGP – Vietnamese State President Tran Dai Quang and leaders of 20 other APEC economies partook in the first APEC Economic Leaders' Retreat under the motto “Challenges to Free Trade and Investment in the Current Global Context.”

VGP – Viet Nam’s Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich has called for stronger cooperation among ASEAN member nations, along with more effective ties with other countries, including China and the US, to address the East Sea issue.

Applying the Rules of Origin of Goods in Asean Trade In Goods Agreement (ATIGA) will help enterprises enjoy preferential tax rates and manage compliance costs that enterprises must bear under the form of documents and accounting cost.

Though the ASEAN Economic Community is expected to significantly benefit Vietnamese exports via import tariff slashes, domestic enterprises are finding it difficult to boost exports for various reasons.

As the 2018 deadline to remove tariffs on completely built cars imported from the ASEAN bloc looms, domestic auto manufacturers are banking on the possibility that the government will have some measures to control imports of completely built cars.